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Producer Lee Gillette convinced Nat King Cole to include the song on his 1957 release Love Is the Thing. Cole initially refused to record it because of the number of renditions available at the time. Cole, who had been singing the song since 1954, declared: "I hate to sing Stardust, it wears me out". On its release, the song received good ...
Launching the charting single "Stardust", which peaked at #79, [5] the album reached #1 on Billboard's "Pop Albums" chart and tied at #1 on the UK Charts with the soundtrack for the 1956 film The King and I. [6] According to the records of the RIAA, the album achieved gold status in 1960 and broke platinum in 1992. [7] The LP was Cole's first ...
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), [1] known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
Stardust is a studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on September 24, 1996. Cole won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the song " When I Fall in Love ", a duet with Nat King Cole , at the 39th Grammy Awards .
Love Songs brings together tracks from throughout Nat "King" Cole's recording career with Capitol records. The swing pianist turned ballad vocalist had a prolific chart run in the 1950s. The swing pianist turned ballad vocalist had a prolific chart run in the 1950s.
“The analysis of a person's career doesn't end with their death," says Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Gregory Porter, who in 2017 released the “Nat King Cole & Me" tribute album."You apply the ...
"Pretend" is a popular song, written in 1952 by Dan Belloc, Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman and Frank Levere. The best-known recording, by Nat King Cole, [1] was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2346.
Natalie Cole was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California, to American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole and former Duke Ellington Orchestra singer Maria Hawkins Ellington and raised in the affluent Hancock Park district of Los Angeles. [8]